l. 304. Gering proposes hleór-bergan = cheek-protectors; cf. Beit. xii. 26. "A bronze disk found at Öland in Sweden represents two warriors in helmets with boars as their crests, and cheek-guards under; these are the hleór-bergan."—E. Cf. hauberk, with its diminutive habergeon, < A.-S. heals, neck + beorgan, to cover or protect; and harbor, < A.-S. here, army + beorgan, id.—Zachers Zeitschr. xii. 123. Cf. cinberge, Hunt's Exod. l. 175.
l. 305. For ferh wearde and gûðmôde grummon, B. and ten Br. read ferh-wearde ([l. 305]) and gûðmôdgum men ([l. 306]), = the boar-images ... guarded the lives of the warlike men.
l. 311. leóma: cf. Chaucer, Nonne Preestes Tale, l. 110, ed. Morris:
"To dremen in here dremes
Of armes, and of fyr with rede lemes."
l. 318. On the double gender of sæ, cf. Cook's Sievers' Gram., p. 147; and note the omitted article at [ll. 2381], [318], [544], with the peculiar tmesis of between at [ll. 859], [1298], [1686], [1957]. So Cædmon, l. 163 (Thorpe), Exod. l. 562 (Hunt), etc.
l. 320. Cf. [l. 924]; and Andreas, l. 987, where almost the same words occur. "Here we have manifestly before our eye one of those ancient causeways, which are among the oldest visible institutions of civilization." —E.
l. 322. S. inserts comma after scîr, and makes hring-îren (= ring-mail) parallel with gûð-byrne.
l. 325. Cf. [l. 397]. "The deposit of weapons outside before entering a house was the rule at all periods.... In provincial Swedish almost everywhere a church porch is called våkenhus,... i.e. weapon-house, because the worshippers deposited their arms there before they entered the house."—E., after G. Stephens.
l. 333. Cf. Dryden's "mingled metal damask'd o'er with gold."—E.